If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRWhat is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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No paradox, no progress.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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